Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center

Camden, New Jersey

BSG has been the only engineering company employed by this general care and teaching hospital for over thirty years. Our role at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center includes help in preparing and updating master facility plans, in addition to our design assignments for all large and most small mechanical and electrical projects. During this time, we have designed and improved all of the facility plant systems (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and medical gas). We also serve as the Medical Center's civil/site engineers, representing them at all community zoning and planning board hearings.

At this new 40,000 square foot Ambulatory Care Center, new space was provided for a regional state-of-the-art, 20-station kidney dialysis treatment center as well as a larger home for the Osborn Family Health Center Clinic, which serves women and children of the Camden area.

MJA provided design and construction services for the $13,000,000 free-standing facility including site/civil engineering and MEP and fire protection engineering. MJA coordinated with the county and city to extend new storm, sewer, water, natural gas and power services. Additionally, we planned the demolition of several buildings, decommissioned several underground fuel oil storage tanks, relocated the hospital?s microware shredder process equipment and improved expanded the facility's campus parking. Our work improved the entire west side of the Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center Campus.

Critical Care Building: The new Critical Care Building is a 132,000 square foot, 7-story building addition at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. Birdsall Services Group (BSG) is providing mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services as part of a design-build project spearheaded by L. F. Driscoll Company Construction Managers. Francis Cauffman Foley Hoffmann Architects, Philadelphia, is providing the architectural design services.

This project includes 2 critical care units, a medical surgical unit, an emergency department, additional operating and cardiac-catheterization labs and an ambulatory surgery unit. To accommodate the new building functions, new electrical, fire and water services are being installed, the boiler plant is being upgraded, a new chilled water plant is being installed, and new medical gas plants and a new emergency power generator are being provided.

The building is scheduled to open in early 2005.